AUSTRIA DECLARES WAR
England’s Home Rule
Crisis Again Approaches
Decision Now With Russia Whether Europe
Will Be Involved In Conflict.
Austrian A rm y Is Moving Against Servia— Neu
tral Powers Cling to One Last Hope of
Localizing Trouble— Germany Rejects
England’s Mediation Proposal.
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT W
PLACE
HONEY-
M OON
London—A t the close o f a cabinet
council late Friday night it became
known that there is only the sm allest:
prospect that the home rule conference
will arrive at an agreement.
Sir Edward Carson, it is understood,
stands out for the complete exclusion
o f six counties in Ulster from the
operation o f the home rule bill, includ
ing Fermanagh and Tyrone, while John
Redmond declines as firmly to go be
Ten forest fires are raging in Mon
yond the concessions Premier Asquith tana.
has made in permiting county referen-
Mercury climbed to 110 in St. Louis;
dums, and unless some way out o f the
difficulty is discovered at the 11th Chicago swelters at 100.
hour, it is believed Premier Asquith
The first woman speeder ever ar
will be obliged to announce the failure rested in Portland was fined $30.
o f the conference.
A train in Chicago hits an auto,
Premier Asquith’s assurances to par
killing one woman and threejnen.
liament in which he assumed full
Hope for a compromise on the Home
responsibility for the king’ s speech
and declared no constitutional pre Rule matter is renewed in England.
cedent had been contravened, allayed
Mme. Caillaux, who shot Gaston
much o f the angry feeling among the Calmette, a noted editor, is on trial in
Liberals, or at least transferred it
Paris.
from the king to the premier himself.
The sting of a bee kills H. V. Hunt
All kinds o f rumors are current, one
that Winston Spencer Churchill, first ington, a resident o f Silver Lake,
lord of the admiralty, representing Wash,
that minority in the cabinet, favoring
Germany refuses to make a treaty
8YNOP8I8.
the clean-cut exclusion o f Ulster, had with United States for general arbi- j
threatened to resign ; another that the trat ion.
E le a n o r a da T o a ca n a w aa singl
P aris, w h ich , p erhap s, a cco u n te d fo r Ed
king will make another dramatic move
v a rd C o u rtla n d t’ « a p p e a ra n ce there. M u l-
England
seeks
a
four-nation
confer
at the conference, and that a speedy ;
d m illion a ire. he w a n d ered a b ou t w h ere
general election has become inevitable. ence to avert war between Austria 'a n c y d icta te d . H e m ig h t be in P a ris one
■
la
y and K a m c h a tk a the n ext. F o llo w in g
John Redmond,
the
Nationalist and Servia.
the o p e ra he g o e s to a c a fe and Is a c-
leader, received resolutions adopted ; E. B. Oshorn, a noted Irish h i s t o r - I : ° sted b y a p re tty y o u n g w om a n . She
riv es him th e a d d re ss o f F lo r a D esim on e,
by a conference at Omagh o f National- ¡an>
tan, declares the Ulstermen are unlike vocal r iv a l o f T o s ca n a , an d F lo r a g iv es
lim th e a d d re ss o f E le a n o ra , w h om he is
ist delegates from the counties of the Hibernians.
determ in ed to see.
C o u rtla n d t enters
Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh, affirm
E le a n o ra ’s a p a rtm e n ts. She o rd e rs him
One boy in each public school in Mit
ing unabated confidence in the Irish
and sh o o ts a t him .
T he next day
aris Is s h o ck e d b y th e m y s te rio u s dis-
leader and declarnig that at the risk Oregon is to be appointed health in P
»pp earar.ee o f th e p rim a don n a. R e a lizin g
spector
for
his
school.
th a r* t ' he —
- a b d u c-
of their lives Ulster Nationalists
m a y * be s u sp e cte d - o f - the
lon o f E le a n o r a C o u rtla n d t a rra n g e s fo r
would never consent to be separated
Government starts suit against New tn
a libi. E le a n o ra rea p p ea rs and a ccu se s
from the Irish nation.
Haven railroad for the purpose o f dis -o u r tla n d t o f h a v in g a b d u cte d her. H is
»libi is s a t is fa c t o r y to the p o lice and the
solving the corporation.
.'harge is d ism issed .
E le a n o ra flees to
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Briet
HAßOLD
MACGBÀ'
Prciurcs
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CD.
RHODES_
London— The Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment declared war against Servia
Wednesday by a manifesto which is
one o f the briefest o f history’s mo
mentous documents.
Germany paved the way for this
declaration by announcing her rejec
tion o f the British proposal to bring
four powers together in conference for
mediation.
Germany explained that
her ally could not be expected to sub
mit her acts to an European council as
though she were one o f the Balkan
states.
This announcement
preceded the
declaration o f war by only two hours
and gave an exhibition o f the perfectly
harmonious working o f the partner
ship between the two nations which
stood firmly together through the Bos
nian crisis o f 1909.
The center o f interest has shifted
sharply to St. Petersurg, which holds
the decision whether a European war
which probably would shift the balance
o f power, if not rearrange the entire
map o f Europe, is to break out. Ne
gotiations are afoot there between the
Chinese liefer to President
Yuan as ‘Another H uerta’
San Francisco— The picture o f Yuan
Shi Kai, president o f the Chinese re
public, was torn up and spat upon at a
stormy meeting o f the local members
o f the Six Companies in the Six Com
panies’ hall
here Monday
night.
Chinatown is bristling with excitement
and prominent Chinese predict that an
other furious revolution would soon
break out in Chnia.
The President o f the Chinese repub
lic was denounced as “ another Huerta,
only w orse.’ ’ It was declared at the
meeting that he had taken office for
the six-year term solely for the selfish
pur(K)se of lining his pockets with the
peoples’ money.
Trouble and discontent among the
Chinese in San Francisco, together
with other cities o f the United States,
extending as far East as New York,
started three months ago, when mem
bers o f the Six Companies sent urgent
cablegrams to the president o f the
Chinese republic asking that he do
something to improve the conditions
among the Chinese in the United
States.
In San Francisco alone, members dc
The Panama canal will be opened
Riots in St. Petersburg
Growing More Serious August 15 to vessels not requiring
more that 30 feet draft.
St. Petersburg — Many police, Cos
sacks and strikers were injured in
strike riots in the streets Thursday.
Strikers held up a train outside the
city and drove all the passengers from
the cars. Cossacks drove them off.
It is understood that the govern-
merit is preparing to adopt stern meas-
ures for the repression o f the strike
disorders which are considered to have
a political rather than an industrial
origin. The employers are in favor of
a lockout, but have decided to wait
another 24 hours before taking such a
step.
More than 150 tramcars have been
wrecked and 300 drivers and con
ductors injured and 100 policemen are
under treatment for slight injuries re
ceived in the last day or two.
It is alleged that the “ poisoning
committee, ” which caused such havoc
among the women in the rubber fac
tories during a previous strike, is
again at work, and many factory em
ployes are already in the hospitals,
suffering from the effects of the fumes
o f some volatile chemical substance.
Southern Railway Stock
Profits Said to Be Big
KING GEORGE, OF ENGLAND
Would Join Russia in Case o f Euro
pean War.
Russian foreign minister and the Aus-
trian ambassador, which are designed
to “ localize” the conflict.
The nature and progress o f these
conversations are
wrapped in the
thickest mystery, but they are the last
plank the neutral powers are clinging
to in face of a storm which may wash
all under.
There is no doubt in British mindH
that Austria had fully resolved to util
ize the provaoeation afforded by the
Saraveyo murders to wipe the. slate
clean o f all accounts against Servia
and served an ultimatum on her which
was designed to have no rusult save
war.
The next news expected is the occu
pation o f Belgrade, and even now it
may be an accomplished fact.
Re
ports of Hinall encounters along the
frontier have been permitted to pass
the censor, but military experts here
believe mobilization has already been
effected and that a thoroughly-planned
campaign is well under way.
There is absolutely no enthusiasm
in England for war— no desire for this
particular war which confronts Great
Britain, yet there is a general belief
that her obligations to her partners in
the triple entente, as well as her in
terests as a great K.uropoan power,
will force her to support Russia and
France in any steps they may take.
Di vent on o f Funds Denied.
Denver — Delegates to the biennial
convention here o f the Western Feder
ation o f Miners listened to a denial by
John L. Hennessy, general manager of
the commissary of the Federation in
Michigan, o f charges mad* by dissent
ing members o f the Butte, Mont.,
local, and brought before the conven
tion by a member o f the Butte delega
tion that strike relief funds of the
Federation had been diverted by offi
cers o f the organization. Hennessy
assured the delegates that vouchers for
every cent expended were at hand.
Prices o f Footl Soar.
Vienna There was an abnormal rise
in the price o f provisions which
caused great indignation on the part
o f the public.
Vegetables in many
cs .es treble»! in price. Feeling ran so
high that in many instances stallkeep-
ers in the markets were mobbed or
assaulted and the |x>lice had to be call
ed out to restore order. The authori
ties declare that the sudden increase
in vegetables is totally unawarranted.
A committee ap|>ointed to deal with
the question o f provisioning the coun
try sat to discuss the regulations.
l^eg Mended With Steel.
Rochester, N. Y. In order to save
the left leg o f Norman V’ an Voorhis,
prominent Western New York horse
man and polo player, both o f whose
legs were broken a few weeks ago
when his pony threw him under an au
tomobile, a rare operation was per-
formed. A long incision was made
near the ankle and the broken hones
joined by means o f a steel plates 1K
Inches long, quarter o f an inch thick
and one-half inch wide.
The plates
were screwed to the bones.
CZAR OF RUSSIA,
Upon Whose Decision Depends Wheth
er a European War is to Break
Out.
clare, more than $1000 was spent for
telegrams to the president within three
months.
One long and urgent tele
gram, which never was answered, cost
$400.
It is charged by the Chinese that
Yuan willfully ignored them and that
he has not their interests at heart or
the interest o f fellow-Chineso in the
republic.
Europe Now Turns to
America to Ilug Wheat
Chicago— Unittvl States is the only
large wheat-producing country that
has a surplus for ex|>ort this year, and
the European crop shows a deficit o f
209,000,000 bushels as compared with
last year.
Foreigners recognize this and have
been enormous buyers o f cash wheat
on futures. A Kansas City authority
is quote«! as saying 26,000,000 bushels
have been sold from there t»> go out by
way o f the gulf this year.
The actual
exjiort business at all markets and in
all positions is enormuos and extends
up to January, and is the largest
known in years, and should it all clear
it will tax the transportation facili
ties to the limit.
War news, a large deficit in the
Eur»>pean crop as compare»! with last
year, and deterioration in the spring
wheat propects in the American and
Canadian Northwest and in Russia,
are the bullish factors.
The esti
mated shortage o f 209,000,000 bushels
in Europe, Russia and Canada has been
confirm»'»! in many details by the
United States department o f A gri
culture.
Bar Fert'or Intense.
Washington, D. C. — Charges that
the Southern Railroad has been im
posed upon much as the New Haven is
said to have through the unloading on
it o f branches o f little worth at fabu
lous prices added an unexpected fea
ture to the investigation which the
senate sub-committee is making o f
alleged discriminations against South
ern ports in coal rates.
B. L. Dulaney, o f Bristol, Conn.,
made the charges in connection with
an explanation o f why he believed the
Morgan interests dominated the South
ern Railway and directed the action of
its officials.
“ These deals show how millionaires
are made,” declared Dulaney.
Chiefly, his charge rested on what
he said was the sale o f the Virginia &
Southwestern to the Southern by H.
K. M cllarg, a director in the latter,
at a profit o f $4,000,000. Dulaney
said he, as a member o f a company
owning the Virgniia & Southwestern,
offered control o f the stock to the
Southern for $500,000, with $1,000,-
000 bonds outstanding. Later, he said
M cllarg sold it to the Southern for ap
proximately $0,5000,000.
The Knox
ville & Bristol, Dulaney said, offered
to him for $40,000, was later sold to
the Southern for about $500,000.
“ Swiss Admiral” Detained.
I’ aris
The Unite»! States depart
ment o f states’ invitation to the the
Swiss government to send a naval rep-
resentative to attend the formal open
ing o f the I’anama canal has caused a
thrill throughout Europe.
A white-
braided uniform, was seen pacing the
boulevards in a drenching rain. When
a policeman askt'il him his rank the
man replied: " l a m a Swiss admiral
and am proceeding to Am erica.” The
policeman saluted, i-alle»l a taxi and in
vited the “ adm iral" to drive with him
to an infirmary for the insane.
Militia Try lynching.
Gortionsville, Va. — Armed guards
patrolled the str»'ets o f Gordonsville
Monday night following an attempt by
members o f the Virginia militia, now
in annual encampment here, to lynch
James Addison, a negro.
Addison, it
is allegeil, made a munlerous attack on
a militiaman early in the evening at a
street carnival. He was arrested by
the civil authorities am! taken to jail.
Several hun»!re»l soldiers battered in
the doors anil seize»! the prisoner, but
he was rescue«! by a relief guard from
camp an»! rushed out o f the town.
Vienna It is with a f»'eling o f in
tense relief that the people in the dual
monarchy look forward to the war
with Servia, which has been formally
declare*!.
Even certain knowle»!ge
that Russia would intervene would not
now cause Austria to hesitate a mo
ment or alter her course in the slight-
<*st. News of the formal declaration
Prohibition Called Confiscation.
o f war ran through th e’city before ex
Memphis, Tenn.— Declaring that the
tra editions o f the pa|>ers could reach
the venders' hands and was every proposed prohibition amemlment to the
where gr»>eted with a spirit which Federal constitution is both impracti
cal and »-onfiscatory, the
National
might be described as an exaltation.
Assignation o f Tight Barrel Stave
manufacturers adopted a resolution op-
Militants Attack
Police.
.
,
posing
the prohibition movement.
Belfast, Ireland
A crowd o f suf- y ore than 100 representatives o f man
fragettes caused a tumult Thurs»!ay ufacturing interests atteniK'd the con
in the Assize court when Miss Dor vention.
othy Evans, o f the Belfast branch
Lightning Hits Fount.
o f the Women’s Social and Political
union, was brought up for trial on
New
Y»»rk
Lightning »washed
the charge o f having explosives in through the Catholic Mission church
her possession. Mis« Evans had been at Rockaway Point. L. I., in a recent
arreste»! in the house o f the Lord strem, and, besides »ioing other dam
Mayor of Relfast. The suffragettes age, smashed the receptacle containing
broke windows and savagely assaulted holy water.
This is said to be un-
the |H>liee. The disturbance was so prece»iented. The bolt struck under the
great that proceedings had to tie sus- cross on the ridge o f the roof, but
pemled for a time.
missed the cross.
l.a k e C o m o to rest a fte r th e sh o ck . She
s fo llo w e d by a n u m b er o f her adm irers,
tm o n g th em the p rin ce w h o rea lly p r o
cured h er a b d u ctio n .
CHAPTER VI— Continued.
Injured laborers in the Canal zone
"That expression proves that your
are running a model farm which is
Highness Is sane again. Have you
owned by the United States.
realized the annoyances, the embar-
A boudoir bag carried by a militant | rassments, you have thrust upon me
suffragette in Nottingham, Eng., was by your pursuit? Have you not read
[ discovered to contain a bomb,
:he Bcandalous Innuendoes in the news
A farmer in perry> okla>f kiIled papers? Your Highness, I was not
hjmge,f and twQ horgeg| when a chattel born on the Continent, so 1 look upon
mort
on the animals came due.
my work from a point of view not
:omtnon to those of your caste. I am
The U. S. government will deposit
proud of it, and I look upon it with
in the national banks o f the country
bonor, honor. I am a woman, but I
$34,000,000,to help move the crops.
im not wholly defenseless. There was
Silas Christofferson, noted Pacific a time when I thought I might num
Coast aviator, predicts failure for the ber among my friends a prince; but
proposed trans-Atlantic flight o f Porte. you have made that impossible.”
“ Come,” he said hoarsely; “ let us
Chairman Barnes, o f the Republican
committee o f New York, has sued so and find a priest. You are right.
Colonel Roosevelt for $50,000 for libel. I love you; I will give up everything,
sverything!”
A population o f 5000 is said to be
For a moment she was dumb. This
doomed on the island o f Aoba, N. S. absolute surrender appalled her. But
W., if the volcano on it continues to :hat good fortune which had ever been
erupt.
at her side stepped into the breach.
A young photographer who went to And as she saw the tall form of the
Yosemite valley for pictures, fell over Barone approach, she could have
a precipice 1000 feet high and was thrown her arms around his neck in
pure gladness.
killed.
"Oh, Barone!” she called. "Am I
Becky Edelson, the I. W. W. agita making you miss this dance?”
tor in a New York prison, has broken
"It does not matter, signorlna.” The
her hunger strike by eating the whites Barone stared keenly at the erect and
ofktwo eggs.
tense figure at the prima donna’B side.
"You will excuse me, Herr Rosen.”
The engagement o f Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds to the 21-year-old said Nora, as sho laid her hand upon
daughter o f Postmaster General Bur the Barone’s arm.
Herr Rosen bowed stiffly; and the
leson is denied.
two left him standing uncovered in
Masked robbers hold up a Southern the moonlight.
Pacific train near Los Angeles and
“ What is he doing here? What has
force men and women passengers to be been saying to you?’ the Barone
give up $2000.
lemanded. Nora withdrew her hand
The czar o f Russia, speaking o f the from his arm. “ Pardon me,” said he
Austria-Servia war cloud, is quoted as contritely. "I have no right to ask
saying: “ We have stood this sort o f you such questions."
It was not long after midnight when
thing for seven and a half years; that
the motor-boat returned to its abiding
is enough.”
place. On the way over conversation
An aluminum tag found in the Mex
agged, and finally died altogether.
ican War department office has proven
Mrs. Harrigan fell asleep against Ce-
to be the identification mark o f Pri
este’s shoulder, and the musician
vate Samuel Parks, U. S. A. infantry,
never deviated her gaze from the sil
who is believed murilered by the Mex
ver ripples which flowed out diagonal
icans some time ago.
ly and magically from the prow of
Sudden withdrawal by President the boat. Nora watched the stars
Wilson o f his nomination o f Thomas slowly ascend over the eastern range
D. Jones, o f Chicago, to be a member pf mountains; and across the (Ire of
o f the Federal Reserve board ended Us innumerable cigarettes the Barone
the bitter controversy over his con watched her
firmation in the senate.
As the boat was made fast to the
., . - „
anding in front of the Grand hotel, i
The visit o f the President o f France 3elegte obst,rved H man In evenlng
to Russia is seriously marred by the lrrss loung1ng agalnst the
of th*
general strike o f Russian workmen in )uay The S(,arcb l l h t from the cug.
protest against the government s pol- om3 boat hunt,
!or- tobacco s
icy in the Baku oil fields.
,lers. fla|lhed over „ „ face sbe could
Ex-President Huerta, o f Mexico, ll0t repress the little gasp, and her
who landed in Jamaica from Mexico, mud tightened upon Nora's arm.
“ What is it?" asked Nora.
recently, is reported to be waiting for
"Nothing. I thought I was slipping."
a ship to take him to Spain, where
he will resille.
CHAPTER VII.
A boy about 13 years o f age, dressed
in rags, was discovered by a forest
Colonel Caxley-Webster.
ranger in Eastern Multnomah county,
Abbott's studio was under the roof
Ore. The boy refuses to give his name
if one of the little hotels that stand
and his identity is a mystery.
lmorously and humbly, yet expectant-
A $50,000 prize bull will be trans y. between the imposing cream-stuc-
ported about New York state in a spe :o ut the Grand hotel at one end and
cially fitte«! automobile for exhibition he elaborate pink stucco of the Grande
Bretegr.e at the other. The hobnailed
I purposes, attended by three men.
shoes of the Teuton (who wears his
Many persons were killeii and enor nouutain kit all the way from Ham-
mous damage was done to property in iurg to Palermo) wore up and down
Budapest. Hanlly a single boat on he stairs all day; and the racket from
the Danube escaped the effects o f the he hucksters' carts and hotel omni-
Duses. arriving and departing from
storm.
he steamboat landing, the shouts of
Hindus to the number o f 352 held he begging boatmen, the quarreling
by the immigration officials at Van if the children and the barking of un-
couver, B. C., have been escortet! 70 jedigreed dogs—these noises were in-
miles out to sea on their return to •essant from dawn until sunset.
India.
The artist glared down from bis
Rioting in Dublin continues and over iquare window at the ruffled waters,
4000
persons
march through the ir scowled at the fleeting snows on
He
streets. Town councils throughout Ire :he mountains over the way.
land pass resolutions denouncing “ the lassed some ten or twelve minutes In
massacre.” which oci'urre«! recently his useless occupation, but he could
when a company o f soldiers fire«! on a lot get away from the bald fact that
mob in the streets, killing four and le had acted like a petulant child To
lave shown his hand so openly, simply
wounding 60.
lecause the Barone had beaten him In
Arrangements are being made at the he race for the motor-boat!
And
Philadelphia mint to convert gold and Mora would understand that he was
silver ilonations from suffragists into veak and without backbone. Harri-
coin to be used by suffragists in their :an himself must have reasoned out
votes for women campaign in six he cause for such asinine plays as
Western states.
Precious relics and le had executed in the game of check-
jewelry from women all over the coun irs
How many times had the old
try are to be pi'ured into a common nan called out to him to wake up and
melting p»»t.
nove? In spirit he had been across
On the big suspension bridge across he lake, a spirit tn Hades He was
the river at Oregon City, built 25 lot only a tool, but a coward likewise
years ago, it was discovered that an in had not dared to
. . . put It to th « touch
entire series o f heavy bolts was omit-
T o ga in or lour It all.
te«!. The lack o f the bolts cause«! the
He saw it coming, before long he
bridge to sway .when an automobile or ind that Italian would be at each o t i
heavy loa»l passe»! over it. The error c 's throats
was discovered when general repairs
were begun.
"Come in !’’ he called, in response ! ly, sizing each other up critically.
to a sudden thunder on the door.
Then they sat down and shot ques
The door opened and a short, en tions, while Abbott looked on bewil
ergetic old man, purple-vlsaged and dered Elephants and tigers and chit-
hawk-eyed, came in. “ Why the devil tabs and wild boar and quail-running
don’t you join the Trappist monks. and strange guttural names; weltering
Abbott? If 1 wasn't tough 1 should nights in the jungles, freezing morn
have died of apoplexy on the second ings in the Hills; stupendous card
landing.’
games; and what had become of so-
“ Good morning, C olonel!" Abbott and-so, who always drank bis whisky
laughed and rolled out the patent rock neat; and what’s-his-name, who in
er for his guest. "W hat’s on your vented cures for snake bitea!
mind this morning? I can give you
Abbott deliberately pushed over an
one without ice.”
oak bench. “Am I host here or not?"
“ I'll take it neat, my boy. I’m not
"Abby, old man, how are you?” said
thirsty, I’m faint. These Italian archi Courtlandt, smiling warmly and hold
tects; they call three ladders flights ing out his hand. “ My apologies; but
of stairs!
. . Ha! That's Irish whis the colonel and I never expected to
ky, and Jolly fine. Want you to come see each other again. And I find him
over and take tea this afternoon. I’m talking with you up here under this
going up presently to see the Harri- roof. It’s marvelous."
gans. Thought I'd go around and do
“ It’s a wonder you wouldn’t drop a
the thing informally. Taken a fancy fellow a line,” said Abbott, in a fault
to the old chap
He’s a little bit of finding tone, as he righted the bench.
all right. I'm no older than he is, but "W hen did you com e?”
look at the difference! Whisky and
“ Last night. Came up from Como.”
soda, that's the racket. Not by the
“ Going to stay long?”
tubful; Just an ordinary half dozen a
"That depends. I am really on my
day. and a dem climate thrown in.”
way to Zermatt. I’ve a hankering to
"Difference in training.”
have another try at the Matterhorn."
"R ot!
It’s the sized hat a man
"Think of th at!" exclaimed the
wears. I’d give fifty guineas to see colonel. “ He says another try.”
the old fellow in action. But, I say;
"You came a roundabout way," was
recall the argument we had before you the artist’s comment.
went to Paris?”
“ Oh, that’s because I left Paris for
"Y es.”
Brescia. They had some good flights
“ Well, I win. Saw him bang across there. Wonderful year! They cross
the street this morning.”
the channel in an airship and discover
Abbott muttered something.
the North Pole.”
“ What was that?”
“ Pah! Neither will be of any use
"Nothing."
to humanity; merely a fine sporting
“ Sounded like 'dem it’ to me."
proposition." The colonel dug into his
“ Maybe it did.”
pocket for his pipe. "But what do
“ Heard about him in Paris?”
you think of Germany?"
"N o."
“ Fine country," answered Court
“ The old boy had transferred his landt, rising and going to a window;
regiment to a lonesome post in the "fine people, too. W hy?”
North to cool his blood. The young
"Do you—er— think they could whip
ster took the next train to Paris. He us?”
was there incognito for two weeks be
“ On land, yes.”
fore they found him and bundled him
“ The devil!”
j back. Of course, every one knows that
“ On water, no.”
he is but a crazy lad who’s had too
“ Thanks. In other words, you be
! much freedom." The colonel emptied lieve our chances equal?"
his glass ” 1 feel dem sorry for Nora.
"So equal that all this war-scare is
| She’s the right sort. But a woman piffle. But I rather like to see you
| can't take a man by the scruff of his English get up in the air occasional
| neck and chuck him.”
ly. It will do you good. You've an
“ But I can," declared Abbott sav- idea because you walloped Napoleon
j agely.
that you're the same race you were
“ Tut, tut! He'd eat you alive. Be- j then, and you are not. The English-
sides, you will find him too clever to j speaking races, as the first soldiers,
| give you an opening. But he'll bear have ceased to be."
j watching. He’s capable of putting her j “ Well, I be dem !" gasped the colonel.
on a train and running away with her.
"It’s the truth. Take the American,
Between you and me, I don't blame he thinks there is nothing in the world
him. What's the matter with sicking but money. Take the Britisher, to
the Barone on him? He's the best j him caste is everything. Take the
man in southern Italy with foils and ! money out of one man’s mind and the
broadswords. Sic ’em, Towser; sic j importance of being well-born out of
’em !” The old fire-eater chuckled.
the other . . .” He turned from the
The subject was extremely distaste- window and smiled at the artist and
ful to the artist. The colonel, a rough [ the empurpling Anglo-Indian.
soldier, whose diplomacy had never
"Abbott," growled the soldier, "that
risen above the heights of clubbing man will some day drive me amuck.
a recalcitrant hillman into submis What do you think? One night, on a
sion, baldly inferred that he under tiger hunt, he got me into an argu
stood the artist’s interest in the rose ment like this. A brute of a beast
of the Harrigan family. He would j jumped into the middle of it. Court
have liked to talk more in regard to landt shot him on the second bound,
the Interloper, but it would have been and turned to me with—’ Well, as I
sheer folly. The colonel, in his blun was saying!’ I don't know to this day
dering way, would have brought up whether it was nerve or what you
the subject again at tea-time and put Americans call gall."
everybody on edge. He had, unfor
"Divided by two,” grinned Abbott.
tunately for his friends, a reputation
"Ha, I see; half nerve and half gall.
other than that of a soldier; he posed I'll remember that. But we were talk
as a peacemaker. He saw trouble ing of airships.”
where none existed, and the way he
"I was ' retorted Courtlandt. "You
patched up imaginary quarrels would were the man who started the pow
have strained the patience of Job. Still, wow." He looked down into the street
every one loved him, though they lived with sudden interest. "W ho is that?”
in mortal fear of him. So Abbott came
The colonel and Abbott hurried
about quickly and sailed against the across the room.
wind.
"W hat did I say, Abbott? I told
"By the way," he said, "I wish you you I saw him. He’s crazy; fact.
would let me sketch that servant of Thinks he can travel around incognito
yours. He's got a profile like a me when there isn't a magazine on earth
dallion. Where did you pick him up?” that hasn’t printed his picture.”
“ In the Hills. H e’s a Sikh, and a
"W ell, why shouldn't he travel
around if he wants to?" asked Court
landt coolly.
The colonel nudged the artist.
"There happens to be an attraction
in Bellagglo,” said Abbott irritably.
"The moth and the candle,” sup
plemented the colonel, peering over
Courtlandt’s shoulder. "He's well set
up,” grudgingly admitted the old fel
low.
J
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
“ I’ll Take It Neat. My Boy.”
The Cat in Kitty.
Stroke kitty the wrong way and
she spits.
Yet she sleeps in the
kitchen by the fire. What of It! The
very lap of her mistress has not count
ed with the cat in her. The cat in
kitty Is wild to the tip of her twitch
ing tail. Watch her— if she hasn't al
ready scratched you— as. crouched
in the grass, she makes her
r to
ward some unsuspecting bird, advises
Dallas Lore Sharp in the Atlantic.
A shiver runs through you. You can
feel her claws— so tiger-like is she.
so wild and savage, so bent on the
kill. Or come upon her at dead of
night in some empty, dimly lighted
j alley. She is on the prowl. The light
i of the narrow, guichilke street falls
! on her with a startling largeness and
marks her silent shadow on the flags.
] She moves stealthily out to the cor
ner, and, well within the shadows,
stops to glance furtively up and down
the open cross-street. But the peo
ple are all within the shut doors.
There ! b no one for her to devour.
first-class fighting man Didn't know
that you went for faces.”
These “ Good Old Tim et."
We may as well demolish the time-
“ Not as a usual thing. Just want It
for my own use. How does he keep worn superstition that the good old
times again are all we need to make
his beard combed that way?”
“ 1've never bothered myself about us happy. There never were any
the curl of his whiskers. Are my good old times "Say not thou. What
clothes laid out? Luggage attended is the cause that the former days
to? Guns shipshape? That's enough were better than these." chides the
for me. Some day you have got to preacher, showing that the complaint
go out there with me."
is as old as human nature.
Hear
"Never shot a gun in all my life. I Homer;
"Few sons are like their
don't know which end to hold at my fathers; most are worse, only a few
shoulder."
are better.” If in Homer’s opinion—
"Teach you quick enough. Every ■ and he puts the words into the mouth
man's a born hunter Rao will have ot Athena speaking, in the guise of
double-distilled
wisdom—
tigers eating out o f your hand He's Mentor.
a marvel; saved my hide more than I most men are worse than their fath
once. Funny thing; you can't show ers. then upon what degenerate days
'em that you're grateful. Lose caste must we have fallen! Given a length
if you do I rather miss it. Get the of time like that between ourselves
East in your blood and you 11 never and Homer and the complaint falls to
get it out. Fascinating' But my liver pieces of Its own absurdity.— Fannie
turned over once too many times. Ha! j H. Eckstorm. in the Atlantic.
Some one coming up to buy a picture." !
The step outside was firm and un- I
Marks End of Childhood.
wearied by the climb. The door opened
Children pass out of a stage— open,
unceremoniously, and Courtlandt came beautiful, exquisitely simple— into si
in He stared at the colonel and the lences and discretions beneath an
colonel returned the stare.
Imposed and artificial life And they
"Caxley-Webster’ Well, I say. this are lost. Out of the finished, careful,
globe goes on shrinking every day!" , watchful, restrained man and woman
cried Courtlandt
no child emerges again.—"The Pas
The two pumped hands energetical- i sionate Friends."